How a battleship holiday redirected naval construction

Which naval programs would have suffered if there had been no battleship-building holiday?

No program necessarily had to suffer, but capital-ship building and guns would expand while the absence of cruiser limits could reduce one reason for building larger destroyers.

Without a battleship holiday, capital-ship construction and heavy-gun production would have expanded rather than automatically starving one named program. Removing the same treaty structure also means no corresponding carrier or cruiser building holiday. The Royal Navy's shortage of cruisers helped create pressure for larger destroyers, including the Tribal class, to cover work that might otherwise fall to cruisers. Plentiful cruiser construction could reduce one reason for destroyer growth even though other tactical and technical pressures would still push the type upward in size.